Wednesday, March 31, 2010

A London council has banned under-18s from buying eggs and flour in the run-up to Halloween in an effort to curb anti-social behaviour.Police will also seize Halloween masks from older children so they can be identified in the case of any criminal activity. CCTV vans will be sent to trouble hot-spots both as a deterrent and as a means of bringing any necessary prosecutions.

Residents will be able to display a poster with the message "No Trick or Treat Here". Police forces across the UK are inundated with complaints over anti-social trick-or-treat activities. These include a growing trend in the Halloween practice of throwing eggs and flour at homes.

That's rediculous. Now the kids are going to have to buy eggs weeks in advance, and bury them in their parents gardens to hide them, which will only make the cleanup worse. Taking the masks of 'older children' is even more insane. This makes me want to visit there less and less.

I've been reading more and more about the UK's fight against 'anti-social behavior', meaning anything that the officials don't personally like.